Nicole Collins is an Associate in the firm’s Family Law department. Prior to joining Rubin and Rudman LLP, Nicole was an associate at a Boston based firm where she focused primarily on family law matters. She continues to focus her practice on complex divorce actions and other domestic relations matters, such as issues pertaining to
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Victoria Calcagno is an Associate in the firm’s Trusts and Estates department. With a thorough knowledge of estate administration, tax planning, and special needs planning, she works closely with clients to help them address their unique goals and circumstances. That involves drafting documents to prepare for incapacity, assess potential tax liabilities, and allocate asset disposition
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Abigail Howard is an Associate in the firm’s Family Law Department. She rejoins Rubin and Rudman after completing a Co-op Internship with the firm and graduating from Northeastern University School of Law in the Spring of 2024. While pursuing her J.D. at Northeastern, she served as a Teaching Assistant for a first-year writing course and
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Nabila Hankour focuses her practice on Elder Law, Estate Planning and Estate Administration. She provides personalized guidance to clients facing a diverse range of legal matters connected to long-term planning, aging and disability. Prior to joining Rubin and Rudman, Nabila was an associate at a mid-sized civil defense firm focusing on a variety of civil
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Taylor Makson is an Associate in Rubin and Rudman’s Litigation department. She excels navigating the parameters of the law to achieve her clients’ goals, mapping creative strategies, crafting arguments, and collaborating with clients and colleagues across the firm. As litigation can be a daunting situation for her clients, Taylor takes pride in demystifying the legal
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Sydney Brady’s practice focuses on complex estate and trust litigation matters including breach of fiduciary duty, undue influence, trustee removal, will contests, equity actions, claims involving the overlap between divorce and probate law, estate and trust administration, and guardianship and conservatorship matters for adults and minors. At the request of certain clients, Sydney also handles
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Ryan Douglas primarily concentrates on matters related to land use litigation, environmental work, and permitting. He possesses significant expertise in practicing within the Massachusetts Land Court, having clerked for both Hon. Howard P. Speicher and the Hon. Kevin T. Smith. Prior to joining Rubin and Rudman, Ryan served as a litigator at a commercial real
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Lauren Scanlon’s practice focuses on probate litigation, guardianships and conservatorships (contested and uncontested), will contests, trust disputes, breaches of fiduciary duty, and aspects of trust and estate administration. She represents and assists both individuals and families in these various areas of practice through skilled writing, research, and oral advocacy. Lauren adopts a resolution-focused approach, emphasizing
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Melissa King joins Rubin and Rudman following a clerkship with Justice Kathryn Hand at the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Melissa previously clerked at the Connecticut Superior Court following her graduation from the University of Connecticut’s School of Law. During law school, she was a Notes and Comments Editor for the Connecticut Law Review, and she argued
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Chelsea Strauss concentrates her practice on domestic relations matters. She represents clients in a wide range of family law cases, including divorce, paternity, child custody, child support, asset division, modifications, contempts, and other related matters. Chelsea brings a high level of compassion to her work on the sensitive and often complex issues involved in such
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